In other words, repeal the 17th Amendment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Prior to that, Senators were appointed by the legislatures of their respective states.
Subtitle: Progressives Blow Up the Framers’ Constitution.
In continuance of the Senate of the States series, the next three squibs leave the Federal Convention and visit the decades leading to the destructive 17th Amendment (17A).
The 17A triggered a cascade of stunning downwind consequences, perhaps only second to the immediate post-Civil War amendments. As opposed to the 13th – 15th Amendments which reset society, the 17A reset our republican governing form. Overnight, the 17A transformed the Framers’ exquisite compound democratic/federal structure into a democratic form deadly to republics.
Why the 17th Amendment? What enormous forces convinced the people, states, and congress to trade a proven, stable governing form for an unstable and dangerous system?